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The Boston e. Maine folks are now having
their innings in New Hampshire, and evil
dence is Forthcoming that the agents of the
Concord road INDUCED in the same kind of
work that has been charged against the
agents Of the Boston q Maine. This is not
improbable. When two big corporations
fall to fighting It is not likely that one will
employ sheep altogether and the other goats.
But the curious thing about all this business
is the slight impression that it makes upon
the Legislature. One would have supposed
that after 1t had been alleged that ATTEMPTS
had been made to secure the passage of
bill by bribery no further action would have
been taken on that particular bill until these
attempts had been investigated and it had
been determined whether any of them had
been successful. But there has been no de-
lay in this case. The Legislature has gone
right on voting on the bill, and now the
measure has passed both houses with the
bribery investigation still pending. What
the explanation is of this apparent lndiffer
ence on the part Of the New Hampshire Leg
islature to charges of corruption against its
own members we do not undertake to saw.
but 1t ii condition of things not at all cred
liable to the State or its representatives.
The Portland daily press., 1887-10-15
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SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER Is.

we 40 not read anonymous letters aud commr-
hieations. The name and address of the writer
are III all cases Indispensable, not necessarily for
puDhcatlon but as guarantee Of good faith.
we cannot undertake 10 return or preserve
communications that are not used.
The Portland daily press., 1887-10-15
THE CAR STOVE.
Dn..4,,,

The deadly ear stove has already begun its
winter work of destruction. The loss of life
in the railroad accident at Kouts Qnd.) YES
terday is largely chargeable to the upsetting
of a stove in one of the cars. With so many
safe and economical methods of heating cars
without the use of live Goals in successful
operation, there is no excuse for railroads
keeping up the car stove.
The Portland daily press., 1887-10-15

Not alone in Portland does diphtheria pre-
vail to an extent to give some anxiety. In
Springfield, Massachusetts,, fifteen cases have
been reported this month, and as a precau-
tlonary measure three schools in the locality
where it chiefly prevails have been closed.
The Portland daily press., 1887-10-15

The Revolution in Tanners Lane, by
Mark Rutherford, is tale of the Regency.
1t is singular work, both in its merits and
its defects, but bears the sign of no common
talent The force and sustained truth of
certain parts are as remarkable as the turgid
and diffuse commonplace of others. The
readers interest is alternately stimulated
and dulled; but no one can rise from the
reading of this story without the conviction
that here is literary gift which needs and
will richly repay. careful pruning, training
and consolidating. New York: G. z. Put
MANS Sons; Portland: Loring, Short &
Harmon
The Portland daily press., 1887-10-15

Potatoes buyers, federal officers and 9th
ers in high authority" turn out to bear hunts
In Aroostook county, according to the Aroos-
took Republican. In the neighboring do
minions of the Hon. Frank Jones fedora,
officers turn out to hunt nothing less than
the members Of a sovereign Legislature
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Funding Loan, -Four Per Cent, For
" YGar, Sinking Fund Bonds.
OFFICE PORTLAND WATER Co.
PnprrT Ann Mr. Capf Df 1Ql

UFTICE TOKILAND -WATER 20. Z
PORTLAND, Me- Sept 26, 1887.
"OLDERS of the Bonds Of this Company due
IL April lst, 1888, are hereby informed that
by virtue Of an act additional 10 and amendatOry
OF Chapter 159, special laws Of 1866, approved
January 2Sth, 1887, the Portland Water Company
were authorized to issue Consolidated Mortgage
Bonds Tor the purpose OF refunding its bonds
heretofore issued as they shall come due and for
the further construction OF its works.
In accordance with said act its bonds have been
issued in denominations OF $500 and $1,000 paya-
in the City OF Boston, IN Gold Coin forty years
from date. (dne 1929 with interest at the rate of
4 per cent. per annum, payable semi-annually in
February and August. The bonds may be regis
tered at the pleasure OF the owner thereof
The Company have established Sinking Fund
the proceeds Of which will be applied by its Trus-
tees to the payment of the Bonds.
Holders Of the COmpany's Bonds due April lst
1888, have the option of an exchange for The new
issue until November 10, 1887, on the terms to
be obtained on application to Portland Water
Company, by GEO. p. WESCOTT
sep27d1m Treasurer
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Stain, in his confession, says the robbers
left Kendall's Mills the morning of the 2ist
OF February in two teams. One team went
to Dexter, and the other, which Stain had
charge of, was driven, to use his own Ian
guage, through Solon to Bingham" 1t is
a little curious shat Stain, who has under
taken to be so specific concerning transac-
tions of which he was not witness, should
not be more specific about his own. In
straight line Bingham is some thirty-fve
miles from Kendalrs Mills, and between the
two are four or five towns. 1t is certainly
strange that Stain does not allude to any of
these towns except Scion. 1t is strange, too,
that he does not say what disposition was
made of the team in which the robbers drove
to Scion. 1t was apparently not used by
them after that, for Stain says he took his
father into his team and drove him to North
Arson, while Cromwell and Scott went to
the same place by stage Both teams were
hired in Gardiner, but Stain accounts for the
return of only one of them.
The Portland daily press., 1887-10-15

considerable increase of diphtheria in
the State of New Jersey has resulted in con-
firming in the mind of DR.. e. NJ. Hunt, Sec
rotary of the Board of Health of thst State,
the theory that the disease is largely due to
damp cellars which are suddenly heated in
the fall During the summer in many eel
lars good deal Of vegetable matter is al
lowed to decay, and when the fires are start
ed In the fall this decayed matter, stirred up
and mingled with a peculiar dampness
which must be in the cellar, pervades the
entire house. This theory has been, in the
opinion of Secretary Hunt, supported by the
fact embodied in reports from various places
In the State of New Jersey where the disease
has ragged; and the State Board of Health is
instructing the people to guard against such
possible source of disease. 1t would be
manifestly sunwarrantable to jump at the
conclusion that the universal cause of diph-
liberia Is foul cellar. But there is no
doubt that the cellar is very important
part OF the house, and that the householder
who neglects his cellar is liable to diphtheria
and many other diseases.
The Portland daily press., 1887-10-15
CURRENT COM MENT.
AN UNPLEASANT INCIDENT.
Tpittshurty 1'iy,,ae

AT one of the way stations out of Chicago
the President, in response to a crowd, came
to the tail of the car just as it was moving
away, and was about to say something when
two-mile lung citizen called out "Neyer
mind, Grover, We'll find it in the Cyclope-
The Portland daily press., 1887-10-15

Gen. Carrafel has been deprived of the
decoration OF the Legion of Honor and his
pension reduced, but this by no means is the
end OF the case. Boulanger has been arrest
cd for proclaiming that the prosecution of
Carrafel was aimed at him, and President
Grevy threatens to resign the Presidency in
chagrin at the scandal to which Carrafel's
conduct has given rise. A political contest
like the election Of President at this time
might work great disaster to France.
The Portland daily press., 1887-10-15

rFlHE Annual Meeting of the Cumberland County
IL Educational Association, will be held at
Lewis's Hail. WoOdfOrd's Corner Deering, Oct
% and 20. State superintendent Luce Will be
present, and DIR. LarlIin Dunton of the Boston
Normal School, will lecture on the German
Schools on Friday Evening Oct. 2S. A large at
tendance is expected and a fine programme will
be presented
The Maine Central will sell round trip tickets
TO those attending the meeting. Members should
be careful to specify that round trip tickets are
desired. Free return tickets over the Portland q
Rochester and Portland & Ogdensburg will be
furnished by the Secretary of the Association TO
those who have paid full fare over these roads
one way.
Free Entertainment will be furnished to Ladies'
Arrangements have been made with the Preble
House and the City Hotel, Portland, TO accOmmo-
date gentlemen at reduced rates. Rates at the
Preble, 100 per day; at the City Hotel, S1.50
and $1.75, according to location of room. Horse
cars from WoOdford's to Portland every half
hour Fare, cents.
Ladies desiring accommodation should address,
MIR. f. w. DAVIS or MISS TINA DAY,
Oet13eod2W WOOdfOrd's, Maine.
The Portland daily press., 1887-10-15

1t is now authoritatively stated that the
President has offered the vacant judgeship
to Secretary Lamar and that the latter has
ace entad
The Portland daily press., 1887-10-15

Some time ago, it will be remembered, an
attempt was made to prevent the Rev. E.
Winslow Warren from landing at New York
on the ground that he came under contract
with the church of the Holy Trinity, and
therefore fell within the law which forbids
the importation Of contract labor. The col
lector decided that the labor meant by the
statute was manual labor. The district at
torney now takes the ground that this is a
wrong Interpretation, and that it was not the
intention of Congress to confne the act to
manual laborers only, inasmuch as clause
was put in excepting artists, actors and lee
turers which would have been superfuous
had only manual laborers been meant. The
letter of the law the district attorney thinks
excludes Mr.. Warren, but the spirit he is in
clined to think does not.
The Portland daily press., 1887-10-15

Elsie's Friends at WOODBURY. is the latest
pity it were not the last-of the long series
of Elsie books, by Martha Finley. These
stories are silly, excited and cheap in their
style, and chronicle the doings of group of
children subjected to the foolish indulgence
sentimental and canting parents These are
books that weaken a child's natural good
sense and instinct, and are to be avoided !;
although they seem to be written with good,
however much mistaken, intention. That
Elsie's Friends at WOODBURY. is rather less
foolish than some of its predecessors is the
best that can be said for it. New York:
Dodd, Mead q Co.; Portland: Loring, Short
& Harmony
The Portland daily press., 1887-10-15
NOTICE.

Ladies' when buying FAST BLACK Cam
Dries and Innings will ask for STERLING
d II (the original and only FAST BLACK
Dye, and take no other. octI2d6t
The Portland daily press., 1887-10-15
ANNUAL MEETINGS.
Female orphan Asylum.

THE Annual Meeting of the subscribers TO the
Il Female Orphan Asylum of Portland, Will be
held at the house of Mr.. j. p Baxter, 81 Deering
St, on TUESDAY, October 18th, at three O'Clock
in the afternoon ABBY S. BARRETT, Sec'y;
Portland Oct 10 1897 Oct11dtd
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DrtIand widows, wood sOciG

Il Wood Society, Tor the choice of officers for
the ensuing year and the transaction II such
other business as may legally come before SAID
meeting, will be held az their office, City Building,
on Wednesday evening, October 26, A. ID. 1887,
at seven and half O'Clock.
S. II. COLESWORTHY, Sec.
oct12 dow
The Portland daily press., 1887-10-15

recommended as practical, wholesome and
inspiring courage and common sense. They
are sure to delight bows and girls, and pa
rents will have reason to be glad that their
children should read such literature.
The Count of the Saxon Shore is the title
of fine story of the period of the Roman de-
parture from Britain. The author is Pro-
fesscr A. j. Church, whose exquisitely ar
tistic version of the Stories from Homer is
one of the few perfect resumes of classic,
for the use of young people. In the present
romance one misses the singular charm of
stye, comparable to Greek sculpture, that
distinguished the earlier work; but the mar
rative is strong, well conveyed, and life
like revival of the days of Saxon and Roman,
hand to hand in the half-darkness of the
early centuries of the Christian ETA in Brit
ain. 1t is book to interest deeply students
Of history who care to fill in dry outlines
with life; and it will be one of the choicest
gifts that the coming holidays will offer to
young people, whose studies awaken in
them the undying enthusiasm for the old
Roman empire that generation after genera
ton feels in reading of those epic times.
New York: G. p. Putnam's Sons .SPort-
land: Loring, Short & HARMONY
The Portland daily press., 1887-10-15

A delicously large, square, brightly COW
cred volume of New Fairy Tales, translated
from the German of BrentanO by Kate Freili-
grath KrOeker, will be hailed with something
very like rapturous acclaim by the young read
ers who love to wander in Fairyland. These
stories abound in ingenious and amusing
episodes, they are fantastic and witty; and
if it is difficult in these sophisticated days to
reproduce the sincere and unconscious force
of genuine folk legends like those collected
by the Grimm Brothers in Germany, or by
Pltre and his collaborators in Italy, at least
Brentano's tales may be said to make COM
paratively few of those appeals to the intel
ligence of grown people-over the heads of
the young audience for which the stories are
ostensibly intended-that half spoil many of
the modern fairy tales. There is plenty of
fun to be found in them, and livliness. and
magical change; and the book with its i'm
aglnative and brilliant stories, and its col
ored Illustrations, will be a treasure to chill
dren so fortunate as to possess it. The
prose part of the translation is admirable in
its sparkle and ease: the verse is less fortu-
nately rendered. New York: A. C. Arm
strong & Co.; Portland: Loring, Short s.
HARMONY
Who Saved the Ship? is the name of a
new book by Jak, already a favorite writer
for young people. TIE story which gives the
title to the volume tells how, while the am
bilious brother went to sea, the sister stayed
at home and managed to save the homestead
from the impending foreclosure of its mort
gage. After a peril0us shipwreck, the boy
comes back, and is satisfied to do his duty in
his own place, assuming the care of his
mother and sister with energies trained by
MS hard experience. The companion story
OF the volume is still better and more attrac-
i've The Man of the Family is a Low who
induces his mother and sister to move TO the
West, where they make a home and friends.
The chapter which describes the Christmas
visit OF Jerry and Molly to a refined family
who live in "dug-out' cabin, and their
homeward ride in blizzard, is exciting and
graphic. These stories may be thoroughly
The Portland daily press., 1887-10-15
CARD TO THE PUBLIC.

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The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1887-12-07
Advancement.

Editor Mirror:
In view of the advanced ideas displayed
in the several innovations that have found
their way into this prison. chief among
which is electricity in the illumination of
cells, it must strike the visitor as odd that, al
though their ascent to the different floors of
the workshops is facilitated and robbed Of
the eXhausting eXertion that usually attends
the accrObatic feat of Scrambling up ram
shake stairs, by conservative elevators of
remarkable and reprehensible lack of ami
nation, that when the cell room is reached,
where ratings and stairs abound to a dis
tracing degree, the absence of passenger
elevator is very striking. TO the stream of
visitors who daily toll painfully up those
two flights of railingless stairs to the pris-
on Mecca, what a boon would be light
passenger elevator furnished with Smyrna
rugs. upholstered divans and beveled French
mirrors? What admiration might not an
innovation of this description awaken?
How the old ladies and weak-minded and
enervated dudes would bless the author?
How the younger people would bubble over
with enthusiasm and fly into commissions of
glee? Now, any innovation that would
have tendency to awaken such train of
probabilities as the above, we unhesitating-
ly pronounce wise measure and confident
ly assert that it would be "corker." Put
passenger elevator in by all means.
SIDETRACK MIKE.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1887-12-07
PRISON FUCKERS.
BY PICKLES..

BY PICKLES.
The law abolishng contract prison labor
goes into effect next September, when the
convicts' millennium will have arrived. The
yards will be turned into crOQuet grounds,
with the grass cropped as close as the con-
ventional convict's head, and the shops
supplied with the paraphernalia OF the
billiard room and the bowling alley; and
everybody and the convcts will be salts
fed.
In the thrOeS of an exciting contest: "A
party of disputing dice thrOwers.
An 'anXi0uS reader Sympathetcally
asks how l got Into such a piclle?"
That's between the editor and myself, who
never "gves away" the fraternity. Suffice
it to say. am put up and ''jugged." ready
for the base uses of the state, and warranted
to keep two years-nnless they expose me
too much to the outside air.
The fellow who was arrested the other
day for shooting off his MOUTH will be
tried on charge of mayhem.
There's a town in Minnesota called ''Ver-
million" When the place was started. its
founders probably celebrated the grand
opening" by ''painting the town red"
hence its name.
'.Checkered careers on the road to ruin.
are ''checked" at Saltwater.
''Roped in:' The prize fighters, and quite
often those who pay to see them.
'.COld Hash to the Death: or, The Mystery
of the Mess Room" is the thrilling title of
prison production i'll process of cOnstruc-
tiOn-or destruction. 1t is delivered in
tri-weekly installments and is said to be a
weird study in animal history, interviewer
with many ar-breadth escapes.
If any politicians on the outside are look
ing for reform party" they can find it
in hereby large majority.
A strong attachment A pair of hand
cuffs.
A clever convict who has hobbIed over
the rocky road of the transgressOr on one
leg to this noted hermitage. will leave here
in few days with bran new leg for his
other boot. bought for him by his generous
fellOw-captives. who trust he will retain his
liberty hereafter by leg baiF'-if he doSen't
reform. He says: Its leg see Qegacy)
of great value-a regular corker. in fact"
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1887-12-07

court at Des Moines, this week, only three
prisoners were brought up from the Jail to
challenge the grand jurors. and there were
only four criminal cases before the court.
The Judge commented upon the fact, and
eX-Judge McHenry. who was present. arose
and remarked that he remembered the time,
not many years ago. when sixty prisoners
had been brought from the cells below at
one time to challenge the grand jury. The
direct cause of this decrease in criminals is
the prohibition of the liquor traffic. The
taxpayer can well afford to be deprived of
a share of the ill-gotten gains of saloon
keepers called license fees, when they are
relieved of paying for the keeping and
prosecution of over fifty criminals
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1887-12-07
4 Badge Of Mourning.

''Well Brown was good fellow. and
l am sorry he is gone" said western editor
to the proprietor of the paper. HE worked
all his life and died poor, the way of most
newspaper men,"
Yes" responded the proprietor, with
considerable feeling. Brown was good
printer and it will be hard to fill his place. :"
Il suppose we ought to attach something
to the door in the shape of badge of
mourning for little while," suggested the
editor.
ut would be good idea, but don't be-
lieve there is anything about the place that
would answer the purpose, and in the pres
ent feeble financial condition of the con-
Germ | don't feel like putting out any
money for Grape"
NO" unused the editor. sit would be
better to settle up back salaries first; but
now think of it. l know just the thing
''What is it?''
1--WE might hang out one of the cOmpos-
ing room towels. ''-Philadelphia Call
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1887-12-07

Prohibition Makes a Scarcity Of Pris-
ORaerS.
1T is quite evident that prohibition is in
Juring some kinds of business in Iowa. On
the opening of the Polk County District